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Technology domain (CPC subclass)

Domain G01N

Investigating or analysing materials120,818 applicationsExamined mostly in 2855, 2877, 1797, 2884

3-year grant rate
68%
allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
71%
range 71% to 71%
Rejections before allowance
1.6
Months to first action
20.6 mo

In plain words

With G01N, 68% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 20.6 months on average.

Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

Allowed in green, abandoned in red, pending in grey. The figures above and every chart that can be recomputed by filing year follow the span you pick; the rest are marked all years.

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Questions practitioners ask, answered from 120,818 applications

Grant rate from the first action

Share allowed, by months after the first office action

The gold line is this record and the blue line is all domains. The marker is the three-year grant rate.

Outcome simulator

Where you are, what you do next, and the odds that follow

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Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds

Every application’s sequence of examiner actions, from the first action to the outcome. Hover a band for the count.

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

The same figures for this record, all domains, the tech center and the whole office.

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Allowance over time

How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is all domains.

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against all domains.

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Interviews

Does an interview help?

Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.

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Odds by round

Chance the next action is an allowance

After the first, second and later rejections.

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Response clock

Days from a response to the next action

How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.

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Quarter-end timing

When allowances land in the fiscal quarter

Allowances by week of the USPTO fiscal quarter. An even spread would put 15% in the last two weeks.

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is all domains.

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Inventors

Who invents most in this domain

Inventor 135 apps
Inventor 230 apps
Inventor 325 apps
Inventor 420 apps
Inventor 515 apps
Inventor 610 apps
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Places

Where it is invented

City 181 apps
City 272 apps
City 363 apps
City 454 apps
City 545 apps
City 636 apps
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Examiners

Who examines G01N

ExaminerCases in G01NOverall allowance rateDifficulty
Docket Central54542%Easier than peers
Maureen Wallenhorst111780%Easier than peers
Alexander Stephan Noguerola103786%Easier than peers
Changhwa J Cheu94774%Easier than peers
John C Ball88283%Easier than peers
Robert R Raevis86984%Typical for peers
Xiaoyun Xu82665%Typical for peers
Gailene Gabel78271%Easier than peers
Jacques M Saint Surin76791%Easier than peers
Michael Patrick Stafira76691%Easier than peers
Gary W Counts74458%Typical for peers
Sang H Nguyen73789%Typical for peers
Christine T Mui73480%Typical for peers
Daniel Sean Larkin67684%Typical for peers
Roy M Punnoose67493%Easier than peers
Arlen Soderquist66267%Typical for peers
Tri T Ton66088%Typical for peers
Christopher L Chin64880%Easier than peers
Lisa V Cook63973%Easier than peers
Abdullahi Nur63792%Easier than peers
Hoa Q Pham63288%Typical for peers
Brian J Sines57183%Easier than peers
Jyoti Nagpaul Mutreja56886%Easier than peers
Shafiqul Haq56866%Easier than peers
Patricia Kathryn Wright55872%Typical for peers